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Before the Bullets, a Warning: ‘Peter, This Is for You’

City police officials on Tuesday released several graphic snippets of surveillance video depicting a shooting in Brooklyn a day earlier; the gunman was later killed by the police.

In the first grainy set of images, the gunman, Carl Lastorino, 45, is seen entering the yard at Peter’s Tire and Rim Shop at 1796 Linden Boulevard and immediately raising a revolver toward a man identified by law enforcement officials as Peter Argentina, 49.

It was about 4:40 p.m. Monday, and the video shows Mr. Lastorino approaching Mr. Argentina. It does not have any sound, but the police said that Mr. Lastorino asked, “Are you Pete?”

A camera inside the tire shop then picks up the action, with Mr. Argentina — who was wounded by a bullet — bolting between narrow rows of stacked tires, as Mr. Lastorino follows, emptying his gun. Mr. Argentina later told detectives he was trying to run, “serpentine, but didn’t have enough room to do that,” said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman.

The term serpentine was apparently a reference to a famous comedic scene from the 1979 film “The In-laws,” in which a character played by Peter Falk yells, “Serpentine!” to remind Alan Arkin’s character, who is trying to evade gunfire, to keep zig-zagging away from the bullets.

Another set of images caught by a surveillance camera mounted in a livery cab shows Mr. Lastorino sitting in the vehicle’s back seat as a police van converges on the location. Mr. Lastorino gave the cabdriver no direction about where he was headed, so the cab stayed motionless. Through its rear windshield, a sergeant and a police officer are seen approaching, with one of them holding his service revolver with two hands.

Mr. Lastorino is seen fumbling with a jacket, pulling out a gun and exiting the passenger side’s rear door, where he crouched in a combat position. The gun he pulled out was not loaded; he left a loaded six-shot Colt revolver in the back of the cab, the police said.

In the next moment, he was shot one time by each officer after they had ordered him to stop and drop his weapon and he responded, “You’re not going to take me alive,” and, “You’re going to have to shoot me,” according to Mr. Browne. The police did not provide video of the shooting.

Though Mr. Argentina has been affiliated with organized crime, according to law enforcement officials, and Mr. Lastorino’s father served time in federal prison in connection with his being a capo in a Mafia family, detectives say they believe the events on Monday have no connection to organized crime.

Investigators say they believe that Mr. Lastorino’s actions amounted to a suicide attempt; notes he left with his mother and sister leave little doubt he was contemplating suicide, according to officials, including a snippet in one of them in which he indicated that “I can no longer live as a failure.” Upon leaving his home on Monday, he said to his mother that he had a job to do and would not be coming back.

“The working theory is this all emerged from the depressed persona of Carl,” Mr. Browne said. “Not a hit, ordered by the father or anyone else.” He added: “When he said he had a job to do, our speculation is that he thought he’d be killed in his attempt to kill Pete.”

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